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No Southampton - Westbury Shuttle Unit Today? (19/10/2007)
« on: October 19, 2007, 02:00:57 PM »

From the FGW website :

18:27 Southampton Central to Cheltenham Spa due 21:27
This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault.

17:06 Westbury to Southampton Central due 18:18
This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault.

15:39 Southampton Central to Westbury due 16:45
This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault.

14:12 Westbury to Southampton Central due 15:24
This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault.

12:32 Southampton Central to Westbury due 13:39
This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault.

11:06 Westbury to Southampton Central due 12:18
This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault.

As many of you will be aware , the Class 153 unit that normally forms these services is due to be sent back to the leasing company in December 2007.
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Re: No Southampton - Westbury Shuttle Unit Today? (19/10/2007)
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2007, 01:45:35 PM »

As many of you will be aware , the Class 153 unit that normally forms these services is due to be sent back to the leasing company in December 2007.

E-mail from Andrew Griffiths :

"We have been able to renew the unit lease from December as refresh cover and then nominally for the Falmouth scheme.  NB the funding for both the unit and the operating costs of the WSB-SOU shuttle has *not* been retained."

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